Summer in Paradise by Bio Paradis

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Summer in Paradise

About Us

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Full schedule at: www.bioparadis.is Visit our gallery, where we have an exhibition and sale of cult-movie posters by local artists.

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Bíó Paradís is Iceland’s first and only art-house cinema, located in the heart of downtown Reykjavík. We screen the latest art-house releases from all around the world, as well as cult films and Icelandic films. We provide a warm, cozy environment for film lovers of all kinds – both in our three-screen theater and in our well-stocked bar. We’re a nonprofit organization run by Iceland’s professional filmmaking guilds.

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New Releases Recent films from the festival circuit: The sheep film that won big at Cannes this year – the legendary Soviet ice hockey team - the measure of love – a romantic suicide pact – around Iceland (backwards). June: Human Capital - June 5th 1001 Grams - June 19th Back

July: Rams Gett - July 3rd Violette - July 17th Amour Fou - July 31st

August: Red Army - August 14th

New Icelandic Cinema with English Subtitles We’re very proud to introduce you to some of our latest homegrown film talent –films that have traveled the world, charmed international audiences and won numerous awards. All films are screened with English subtitles.

Film Festival

In Reykjavik

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Auglýsing

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June / New Releases Premiere June 5th

Premiere June 19th

Human Capital

1001 Grams

Drama | Paolo Virzi, 2014 | Italy | 111 min | English subtitles

Drama | Bent Hamer, 2014 | Norway | 93 min | English subtitles

The destinies of two families are tied together after an accident the night before Christmas Eve.

Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo but it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and love that ends up on the scale.

Reverse Comedy | Gunnar Hansson & Davíð Ólafsson | Iceland | 90 min. | ENG sub

Two childhood friends decide to drive backward around Iceland to raise money for charity. Soon after they set out, however, they discover that perhaps this wasn’t the best idea. Nothing goes as planned - in fact, almost everything goes wrong.

July & August / New releases Premiere July 17th

Rams

Violette

In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them – their sheep.

Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir, who writes and comments on her book, and introduces her to contemporary intellectual icons Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Albert Camus. In 1964, the success of Violette Leduc’s autobiographical bestseller La Bâtarde enables her to earn a living from her writing. Special Mention Award Haifa IFF

VANTAR MYND

Premiere July 3rd

In Israel it’s almost impossible to get a divorce, but Vivian is fighting to part from her husband and is not willing to give up. Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe

Nominated: SACD Prize Cannes Film Festival

Best Screenplay Chicago IFF

Special Mention San Sebastián IFF

Nominated: Best Foreign Film Magritte Awards

Premiere July 31st

Premiere August 14th

Amour Fou

Red Army

A romantic comedy/costume drama about the young writer Heinrich von Kleist and his attempts at getting his cousin to participate in a suicide pact in the early 1800s.

Hockey captain Slava Fetisov and four other players form a nearly unbeatable unit known as the “Russian Five,” but their coach’s brutal regimen leads Fetisov and others to defect from the Soviet Union.

ICS Award International Cinephile Society Awards

Nominated: Un Certain Regard Award Cannes FF

Best Film Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival

Special Mention Zurich Film Festival

Audience Award Chicago IFF

Audience Award AFI Festival

New Icelandic Cinema Life in a Fishbowl

Of Horses and Men

The lives of three very different people intertwine for a moment in unexpected ways. Inspired by events in Iceland prior to the 2008 economic collapse.

A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become intertwined with enormous consequences.

Main Award Lübeck Nordic Film Days

Special Jury Prize Zurich Film Festival

Best Film Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Best Director Tokyo International Film Festival

Best New Director San Sebastián Film Festival Best Film Best Cinematographer FIPRESCI Prize Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Nordic Council’s Film Prize Nordic Council 2014

Paris of the North

Virgin Mountain

Hugi has found shelter from life‘s complexities in a small and isolated village. When his estranged father suddenly turns up, his quiet life is interrupted.

Fúsi is in his 40s and has yet to find courage for the adult world, sleepwalking through life, where routine is key. A woman and an eight year old girl enter his life and he is forced to take a leap.

Nominated: Crystal Globe Karlovy Vary IFF

BJÖRN THORS "GORGEOUS VISUALS" - VARIETY

Nominated: Best New Director Vancouver IFF

Nominated: Best Nordic Film Gothenburg Film Festival

Nominated: Best Feature

HELGI BJÖRNS

Chicago IFF NANNA KRISTÍN MAGNÚSDÓTTIR "DELIGHTFULLY DRY AND WRY COMEDY DRAMA...HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURÐSSON IS ONE OF THE BEST UP-AND-COMING EUROPEAN DIRECTORS."

"BJÖRN THORS IS A TERRIFICALLY CHARISMATIC PERFORMER.”

- SCREEN DAILY

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-THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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PARIS THE ONE WHO TRAVELS FURTHEST, KNOWS THE LEAST

OF THE NORTH

KJARTANSSON AND ZIK ZAK FILMWORKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARIZONA PRODUCTIONS FLICKBOOK FILMS AND PROFILE PICTURES WITH SUPPORT FROM ICELANDIC FILMCENTRE AND EURIMAGES PRESENT BJÖRN THORS HELGI BJÖRNSSON NANNA KRISTÍN MAGNÚSDÓTTIR SIGURÐUR SKÚLASON JÓN PÁLL EYJÓLFSSON HAKI LORENZEN IN “PARIS OF THE NORTH” MUSIC BY PRINS PÓLÓ COSTUME DESIGN EVA VALA GUÐJÓNSDÓTTIR AND MARGRÉT EINARSDÓTTIR SOUND DESIGN HULDAR FREYR ARNARSON

Arctic Fox

EDITOR KRISTJÁN LOÐMFJÖRÐ PRODUCTION DESIGN HÁLFDÁN PEDERSEN CINEMATOGRAPHY G. MAGNI ÁGÚSTSSON, ÍKS CO-PRODUCERS DITTE MILSTED JACOB JAREK GUILLAUME DE

SEILLE TOBIAS MUNTHE SKÚLI FR. MALMQUIST PRODUCERS SINDRI PÁLL KJARTANSSON AND ÞÓRIR SNÆR SIGURJÓNSSON SCREENPLAY HULDAR BREIÐFJÖRÐ DIRECTED BY HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURÐSSON

Documentary, Gudbergur Davíðsson, 2014, Iceland, 27 min.

A poetic and authentic story of a small miracle, the survival of a family of arctic foxes in the harsh Icelandic environment. Narrated in English.

Best Actor Tribeca Film Festival

Best Narrative Feature Tribeca Film Festival

Audience Award CPH:PIX

Best Screenplay Tribeca Film Festival

Bíó Paradís Greatest Hits Some of our favorite films of the past year – a opportunity to catch up on what you missed!

Birdman Drama | Alejandro Gonzáles Inárritu | 2014 | USA | 119 min | Icelandic subtitles

Former cinema superhero is mounting an ambitious Broadway production that he hopes will breathe new life into his stagnant career.

A family on a skiing holiday in the French Alps finds themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core.

Whiplash Drama | Damien Chazelle | 2014 | USA | 106 min. | Icelandic subtitles

A promising young drummer enrolls at a music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.

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All films are in English or screened with English subtitles.

Wild Tales Drama | Dami谩n Szifron | 2014, Argentina | 122 min. | English subtitles

Produced by Pedro Almod贸var, these six short stories show that revenge can be hilarious, clumsy and comical.

Random body parts are found in coal bins all over a province in northern China in the year 1999.

Leviathan Drama | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2014 | Russia | 2014 | 141 min. | ENG sub

A powerful and evocative story that depicts a harsh and unjust reality in contemporary Russia.